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This just meant more time to enjoy DJ Lady Starlight’s mixing and the parade of costumes and general zaniness of fans at artRAVE: the ARTPOP Ball tour. Fans were pumped up for the previously postponed tour finally landing at Rogers Arena. And the Lady has serious devotees.

Every album go-round by the pop image maker has been larger and more lavish than the previous.

This tour for her third album ARTPOP boasts a huge runway that features four different performance platforms around the venue floor as well as a section that looked every bit of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. The mainstage is like those models you put in an aquarium, or the Littlest Mermaid’s digs.

The opening tune Artpop featured 13 multiple dancers, giant amounts of confetti and the five-piece band rocking out as Lady Gaga arrived in a rhinestone one-piece with a big blue ball in the middle of her chest. Different. Based on the bouncing around in Donatella, I’d guess the hip surgery worked.

She is moving better than she was on the Born This Way tour.

And on it went as Lady Gaga pranced, swore like a trucker and vanished through numerous stage doors to emerge in some new costume.

Between her and her dancers there must be a semi just for wardrobe and wig transport. Oh yeah, the sound was really clean considering the volume and the set list delivered all the big hits and plenty more.

Honestly, when the stage is growing alien plant life and you can hardly see for the confetti, the song seems somewhat less important than the show.

It was a pretty fine final show, North American artRAVE.

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